The mecha musume — basically, battle vehicles or Humongous Mecha rendered as cute girls — are a common form of moe anthropomorphism. Can also overlap with Cute Monster Girl if the moefied character is a monster. If the original character is male, Gender Flip may be a component, although boy implementations do occasionally happen.

Could easily be Nightmare Fuel for some, depending on what is changed, what it looks like, and its gender.

Examples: (Note: As all of the below are by definition in an Anime Style, and almost all of it is fan-art created for the web, they have been sorted by the source material they are based upon.)

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The notorious OS-tans are moe versions of operating systems and programs; their boob size is often proportional to memory requirements. Windows ME-tan is the Ensemble Dark Horse, who became a popular character for her good intentions but decidedly unstable nature (and her cute Idiot Hair). Windows 2000-tan is a professional, reserved woman, Windows XP-tan has excellent graphical capabilities, and Windows Vista-tan has transparencies and even more memory requirements (except for Basic-tan who's a tsundere little girl). Windows 95-tan is a Yamato Nadeshiko carrying a katana, destroying Microsoft's PC competition once and for all, and eats very little memory. Norton Anti-Virus is portrayed as a lecherous, ghostly doctor who makes the girls strip naked even for the most minor ailments; McAfee as a faith healer; and AVG as a handsome student doctor. Also with theme song.

There are Linux-tans as well. Linux-tan herself is a bit of a Shrinking Violet, and Slack-tan is a Wrench Wench. There are also Unix-tans, with UNIX-tan herself being somewhat a tsundere. (Here is a pretty good lineup of the major ones.)

A similar concept can be found in My Senior IE-kun, a web series about web browsers in a Work Com setting with "IE-kun" as a ditzy Bunny-Ears Lawyer. The series typically uses the browser logos as the characters' heads, but the author did make human faces to make the moe more palatable.

Indonesian filtering service Internet Positif got one in the form of Ipo-chan, an athoritative girl with a hair-trigger blocking sense.

Akikan! does this for soda cans. These soda girls need carbon dioxide infusions (through kissing) to live. Japan really can make anything moe.

Okayama Prefecture in Japan has anthropomorphized their prized homegrown-jellies into moe girls.

A few Vocaloid characters have elements of this, and one plays it completely straight. Ryuto◊, also known as Gachapoid, is a male anthropomorphism of beloved Japanese children's tv character Gachapin. Hatsune Miku's design is heavily based on the Yamaha DX7 and DX100 synthesizers. Kagamine Rin and Len have elements from the Yamaha EOS keyboard in their design. Kamui Gakupo has many elements of digital music, such as spectrograms and equalizers, portrayed as samurai gear, and Megurine Luka has elements of brass instruments in her design.

A magazine ad for the Asus ROG Crosshair IV Extreme motherboard has it in the form of a short-haired brunette in a techno-fetish costume, holding a BFG three times her size and based on the device's design. Not very "moe" but still.

Sanrio gives us Kirimi-chan, a moe anthropomorphism of salmon fillet. She's also joined by friends based on chicken cutlets, mackerel, sharks, and many more. Taken even further with the officialpersonification project, essentially moefying moe anthropomorphisms.

Kämpfer does this in its eyecatches for the Creepy Dolls that grant the heroines their powers. While in doll form they look like cute animals that just committed suicide in a variety of ways, in human form they look like Petting Zoo People, focusing more on the cute than the creepy.

Binchou-tan is an anime about Anthropomorphic charcoal in the form of chibi girls.

Nanako, the partially-anthropomorphised form of the Seventh Scripture in Tsukihime. Ditzy little half-unicorn girl that is only visible to those with intense magical potential, have spilled their blood on it, and weird people like Shiki.

Parodied in Nyoron Churuya-san with "Dust-chan", who is shortly disposed of via vacuum cleaner.

Robot Girls Z adds even more girls to the lineup, namely ones styled after the titular robots of the Mazinger franchise. Its browser game spinoff takes it one step further by personifying some of Toei's non-robot properties, such as Enmako-chan or a Cutey Honey representing the then-upcoming movie Cutey Honey: Tears.

The "Angel Chromosome XX" line of Neon Genesis Evangelion merchandise portrayed the Angels as cute girls, including portraying Lilith as Rei Ayanami.

Silver Spoon takes place in an agricultural high school. Nishikawa, who is from a crop farming family but also an anime and gaming otaku, tends to use this trope:

When he's given the task to decorate a sled, he decorates it with anthropomorphized moe artificial fertilizers, and names them "NPK48", a pun on AKB48 ("NPK" standing for Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium).

Much later in the story he presents breeds of potatoes anthropomorphizing them as various types of girls.

Cursed Devo's Ebony Devil looks like a cute little boy with antennae and is wearing a teddy bear costume.

Jotaro gets another Star Platinum, who is probably a cosplay for the Runaway Girl.

Mariah's Bastet gets turned into a version of Taokaka with outlet paws.

A darker example occurs in the Japan Animator Expo short ME!ME!ME!, where the main character's depression and guilt over breaking up with his girlfriend are depicted as cute busty girls that eat him alive.

Even Jurassic World is getting this! Perhaps helped by the fact that Jurassic World gave its prehistoric creatures a little more personality than the previous films did (making it easier to anthropomorphize them). A coupleof examples.

Entaku Seitokai (Round Table Student Council) does this for the King Arthur legends. Heroic knights of old turned into the cute girls of today. A liberal amount of Gender Flip is also applied in this instance.

Along the lines of Axis Powers Hetalia the webmanga and web novel series Miracle Train ~Chūō-sen e Yōkoso~ about the Japan Railways Chuo Train Line has five of its major stations (Zero Tokyo, Shintaro Shinjuku, Riku Nakano, Takuto Kichijōji, and Luna Tachikawa) personified as bishonen. We're not kidding, official site here and Anime News Network report here. The characters have even been given voice actors.

There's also an anime called Miracle Train, though it focuses on the Oedo line instead of the Chuo line.

Strike Witches: Probably the most well-known example for military Moe Anthropomorphism.

There's a bunch of models for AP'd WW2 planes as little girls with the appropriate national costumes and plane parts as clothes/prosthetic limbs. Surprisingly not very moe, or at least their eyes aren't.

Green Dam, the Chinese censorship/nanny tool once said to be a mandatory installation on all the country's new computers (until the government apparently backed down), was Moefied as a protest. Mildly Not Safe for Work link here.

As an extension of the above, some World War II generals like Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, Rommel and Zhukov are also given the treatment, from the same company that brought the "Moe Dictators" series.

Flight Highschool features a high school populated entirely by anthropomorphized military aircraft of various nations from the Cold War to the modern day. Attributes of each character's appearance such as their hair style and height are references to the aircraft they represent. They also have their plane on their back which is sometimes used for visual gags.

All of the Spirits in Date A Live are based on the Kaballah Tree of Life's sephirots.

Roleplay

Mahou MUSH unintentionally gained its own game-wide mascot when players observed that the game's hourly randomized save message had a way of being a little too on-point. Jokes about "Save-tan" developing sentience abounded, and several more messages were added acknowledging Save-tan as a character in her own right - including the ever-popular "Dammit, Save-tan!"

The Frame Arms Girls line developed by Kotobukiya, who was well known for Frame Arms series, which consists of a robotic frame with interchangeable armors and weapons. The Frame Arms Girls are not just anthropomorphised mechs, all the weapons and gears of Frame Arms, M.S.G. and Frame Arms Girls are compatible with each other.

Also by Kotobukiya is Megami Device, another Shinki-esque line of armored robot girls who, like the FA Girls, are fully compatible with old Shinki tech and Koto's M.S.G accessories.

The YonkomaP.S. Three-san (or P.S. Triple in the US) centers on the adventures of the eponymous protagonist, a moe anthropomorphism of the PlayStation3, as she tries to make her mark as a struggling idol singer against her rivals X-Locks (Xbox 360) and Whee (Wii). Other consoles also make appearances as idol singers including Dee S(Nintendo DS), her bitter rival Pea (PSP) and Three-san's older sister Double (PlayStation 2) as well as the crazy producer Saygah (Sega).

The anime series Hi*sCool Seha Girls stars a trio of characters referred to as the "Sega Hard Girls", each of whom are based Sega's consoles: Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, and Mega Drive.

And then there's Wheatley, usually drawn to at least somewhat resemble his voice actor, Stephen Merchant. This basically resulted in the mostly-down-to-Human-Wheatley-Perverse Sexual Lust-fuelled-but-also-fairly-logical Fanon that the personality cores are all created from Brain Uploading Aperture Science employees.

Moemon, a notorious Game Mod for Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, converts the 'mons into Cute Monster Girls, which only breaks down a little for Nidoran M. The mod also converts the Trainer to a Meido, and she flies instead of runs when she gets the Running Shoes.

Male Pokemon do exist, and are very common, but the starters are usually female. There's a general 75%-25% ratio in the games, which has been flipped in the hack.

On the subject of Pokemon, behold this picture of 493 anthropomorphised 'mons...

Neptunia is built around this concept. The four main characters are personifications of the seventh generation game consoles (the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii, note and later the PS4, Xbox One, and Wii U with the main being the hypothetical Sega Neptune), with their "little sisters" representing handhelds like the PSP and DS. The series also features anthropomorphized versions of companies like Gust and Nippon Ichi, and later games add in girls representing specific game franchises like Pac-Man, Dynasty Warriors, and Street Fighter.

The Unity game engine has a girl mascot in Japan named Kohaku Otori a.k.a. Unity-chan. She was popular enough to get some appearances in Vocaloid related contents.

In Video Games

There's an eroge called MonoGokoro MonoMusume that has moe-anthropomorphized objects as most of its principal cast. Objects turned into cute girls include a computer, a pillow, a Humongous Mecha toy, a washing machine, and a pair of panties.

A good portion of Touhou characters feature this to some degree or another; for example, Nitori, a Kappa, having the turtle shell and head plate of the actual mythological beast turning into a backpack and a cap, or Yamame, a giant spider monster, being a girl with no monstrous features except for design elements of the dress she wears. Some of the girls, like Kogasa, the Tsukumo sisters and Hata no Kokoro, are tsukumogami, which are basically personifications of inanimate objects, so they are kind of this in-universe as well as out.

There's also the free-to-play MMO TPS CosmicBreak, where a part of robots are your usual mechs while others are mecha musume.

Played with in Girls' Frontline. The game is noted to have used some Insistent Terminology in Chinese adverts to not imply it as a game about anthropomorphized weapons, but somewhere along the lines of "just" Girls with Guns. Despite this, design elements are still mixed with moe anthropomorphism aspects, and most of the T-Dolls under your command are personification of various firearms. This is also justified, as historical and combat data of a weapon are used to determine the ideal physical shape, personality, and even mannerisms to best wield their specified weapon.

There are humanised versions of the romanceable birds in Hatoful Boyfriend, visible in a brief portrait when you first meet them. The game claims this is the work of the ICPSS system showing the "birdiest bird" as human, though it fails with Okosan. It's clear from the text that the characters are still birds, and the manga even states that the human appearances are just there to help beginners feel the bird-moe, but this doesn't stop some fans.

Gum Kare! personifies chewing gum brands into hot, dateable young men. Played with in terms of the protagonist- She's supposed to represent the mouth eating the gum, so she's portrayed as a moe photorealistic tooth.

The mobile RPG-turned-anime Kemono Friends originally had magic turn all the female animals in the world into cute girls.

Oshiro Project follows in the footsteps of Kantai Collection and Touken Ranbu by personifying castles as cute girls.

Webcomics

Mab, queen of cute things, is a fan of the webcomic Jack. Those familiar with both comics will know this could not possibly end well. Thus, we get Mab's Chibi Hell, which is, according to various sources, adorable, awesome, an offense against all that is good and right, or all of the above. Or, to quote the author:

"She has chibified the unchibifiable. Drip is undeserving of ever looking this innocent."

"Object Ponies" are also somewhat common, where a normally inanimate object is "ponified". Artists like Nips and Badumsquish are both quite fond of such creatures, with the latter even writing stories about these creatures meeting their human "master".

The Equestria Girls series is a canon take on this, with the ponies' skin colors being the same as their coats (to avoid the thorny issue of each pony's canon ethnicity).

Interestingly popular on the Japanese site Pixiv is personification of the Thomas and Friends cast, of all things.

ThisTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) animated short has Donatello using a cloaking device to let us see what Donatello, Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo would look like as humans. Since the short was written by Kevin Eastman (one of the original creators) and Paul Jenkins, it's about as canon of a take as we'll ever get.

Web Animation

Someone has managed to personify Adobe Flash. As in the animation program.

Web Original

The Other Wiki has Wikipe-tan (along with Commons-tan and Quote-tan). TV Tropes itself has Trope-tan, while Encyclopedia Dramatica has AE-tan and Uncyclopedia has Uncyclo-tan.

OC Re Mix uses OCR-tan, with a new one for every forum version. The youngest, Ocr 1-tan, is the first incarnation of the forum.

Most of the boards of 4chan have a moe anthropomorph. For example, /a/ is a Meganekkounder-age Trap with an Ahoge. New board /aco/ (the western-equivalent of both /h/ and /d/) got into an argument on who would be the board-tan and all were forced to accept a generic /aco/lyte for the board. The only board that takes "anthropomorphic" to a completely different degree is Trish, an obese opossum that serves as /trash/'s board-tan.

The CWCki Wiki of Sonichu has CWCki-tan, and the majority of that "art" will likely make you cry inside, especially the one for Valentine's Day.

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